Overview of the Country

Spanish North Africa, contrary to popular belief, does in
fact exist. It can be found somewhere on the northern
Moroccan coast of Africa, west of Portuguese North Africa and
east of both Minnackers and Hawaiian North Africa.

Spain felt the need to subdivide Spanish Morocco and
Spanish Sahara after many years in rebel infighting.
Spanish North Africa, a political enclave, was allowed
self-rule as a result.

The capital city of Spanish North Africa is Ciudad de Leon
and is on the northernmost coast of SNA.

Since self-rule has been chosen by the SNA population,
SNAPO (Spanish North African Post Office) has attempted to
infiltrate PNA and has been somewhat successful.
Sheets of PNA stamps were supposed overprinted on the infamous
PNA "Republica" overprints.

Attack fennecs have been sent out to Morocco in an attempt
to stop registered mail from leaving Morocco. This was
done to help the Global Carpet Rate and Priority Fennec Rate
get off the ground throughout SNA. Fortunately, no
postal officials have been hurt badly and most registered mail
from Morocco has been halted.

Recently, Mauritanian rebels in the Sahara have been
overcome by the dreaded Sopwith Camel brigade of SNA airmail
runs. Certain Mauritaninan CTO (Cancelled To Order)
stamps have been overprinted by SNAPO.

...which brings us to today.

Many people have requested stamps of SNA for their
collections. Unfortunately, these stamps are scarcer
than the queen's jewels, even though they are printed in
extraordinary numbers and varieties. It is rumored that
the local, indigenous population of SNA hoard these stamps for
the future, where they are told they will be much more
valuable than they are today.

SNA Local
Issues

Here are a few Spanish North Africa "local" issues.
These stamps have been overprinted due to paper shortage in
SNA. Since there are few trees left in the country,
SNAPO staff pillage and plunder neighboring countries for both
stamps to overprint and ideas to manipulate.

Although not yet a member of U.P.U., SNA strives to
outperform other U.P.U. countries in number of issues and
varieties of issues per year.

5 Fennec Chip on
Ifni Semi-Postal of 1951

According to local folklore, this is the first
local stamp attempted in the region currently known as Spanish
North Africa.

This was the Priority Fennec Rate in 1955.
Counterfeits of this issue with "Fennecs" inverted are
known. They are PNA propaganda.

(ed: The fennec is one of the mascots of SNA and
is highly respected with the rapid (but sometimes erratic)
delivery of mail.)

The Unapproved
Speedy Gonzales Essay

In 1958, SNA tried to promote a new mascot, due
to the fennecs erratic behavior, but apparently it did not win
over the masses. This mascot was to be called "Speedy
Gonzales", but copyright infringement wars with Looney Toons
& Warner Brothers followed the the unveiling. It
never truly got off the drawing board.

The child's drawing above has been kept in an
effort to maintain, intact, the rather ragged history of
SNA.

SNA was then very deeply in debt. Fortunately...

Donated Spanish
Sahara Semi-Postal in 1960s

Some time in the mid 60s, Spain comes to the rescue with
some misprinted, misaligned and sometimes blurry remainders of
the Spanish Sahara camel Semi-Postals. Spain stated no
reimbursement was necessary.

A few nice copies of this overprint have been found with
missing periods. These were not officially released and
are considered overprinter's waste.

SNA attempted, at this time, to change the monetary
exchange system in the country:

1 Fennec
Chip Local Mail Rate

5 Fennec
Chips Priority Fennec Rate

10 Fennec
Chips Global Carpet Rate - Europe,
Russia

2 Camel
Chips African Rate

10 Camel
Chips International Global Carpet
Rate

Where:

40 Fennec Chips = 1 Camel Chip

30 Camel Chips = 1 Ostrich Plume

10 Ostrich Plumes = 1 Grand Poo-Bah

Border excurscions by the FDC (Fennec Desert Corps) and The
Sopwith Camels from the Dromedrome obtained many stamps from
neighboring territories, espcially Minnackers, PNA and
Mauritania.

1999 Mauritanian
CTO Rebel Issues

The above stamp, representing the Global Carpet Rate value
of 10 Fennec Chips, was overprinted on sheets of Mauritanian
CTO pictorials. These must've been remainder issues that
got into the hands of rebel forces in the Sahara. The
fennecs shown on the stamp above are close relatives to SNA
postal fennecs and actually helped in the rebel raids.

When Window Clerk #1 cancelled the mail in Ciedade de Leon,
the Global Carpet overprint was obliterated, thereby rendering
the stamp unusable in the future. No known varieties
exist. Rumors abound of other values in the set.

Recent SNA
Issues

In the near future, other, more recent SNA
issues will be displayed. Please stay tuned for
this.